Cassell's Book of Birds, Part 4: Parrots Continued
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Short-Tailed Parrots
Short-tailed parrots are excellent food, and the soup made from their flesh is much esteemed both in Brazil and Suriname. These parrots lay two white eggs in holes of trees, upon a bed of shreds of wood chipped out in preparing the nest. They breed but once in the year, and that in the springtime of their native land. The young, if taken from the nest, are soon tamed, and learn to speak distinctly. On this account they are frequently found in the Brazilian houses, and are brought in great numbers into the towns and sold to sailors who bring them to Europe.
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